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Requirements for Patentability
There are four statutory classes of patents under U.S. patent law: (1) Machine (any device or apparatus); (2) Manufacture (a manufactured article); (3) Composition (combination of ingredients such as chemicals, and (4) Process (method of doing something) Now lets turn to the requirements for patentability. An invention must be useful, novel, and non-obvious in order […]
Patents Fuel American Ingenuity
In the famous words of Abraham Lincoln, “the patent system added the fuel of interest to the fire of ingenuity”. The founding fathers of our country chose to provide every citizen the incentive to create and invent. A patent is a right, granted by the United States to an inventor, to exclude others from making, […]
